I gave up cigarettes because they were bad for ya, and cuz they were disgusting. Then I found cigars and did them for a while, but have recently downgraded to the grandfatherly pipe. I'm really getting into it.

I wonder if any other gourmands out there are into the briar? I find the erudition that goes into the pastime to be delightful -- find out about favorite tobaccos, puffing techniques, different wood and meerschaum finishes, etc. And I find the taste to be much more of a gourmet experience -- you can mix and match, perfect your preferences, ask your sign. o. about her favorite "room notes". It's much more a thinking man's smoke.

Comments?


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... do yourself a favor and give that up, too.  It's not good for you either.  And if I can quit a 3+ pack a day habit after 30+ years, so can you!

Reoes anybody else here smoke a pipe?

Hi, I recently gave up pipe smoking. I smoked cigarettes, went to cigars and pipe as well. Actually bounced between all 3 for years, but I finally tried to just smoke a pipe.

Well, good news is I didn't miss cigarettes, bad news is, thats because I was inhaling the pipe smoke. Hell, I even inhaled cigar smoke. Well, I gave them all up, I wasn't doing myself any good.

I still love the smell though, and it's hard to look at that retired pipe without wanting to run out and get some tobacco
I just wish I could smoke it and not inhale.....

They're both bad for you; Just like fast food, fast cars and fast women. There isn't a guy on this board who is going to give up ALL of those three things. Especially not the last one.

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my uncle gave up smoking 20 years ago and switched to chewing tobacco at work so his wife never knew.  Now he is 80 has no larnyx and using a voice box to speak.  It was the chew that caused the damage not his smoking.  Get a nicotine patch and quit the habit all together.

I just hope the patch does the trick because there is 4 times the nicotine in a dip than a cig'. I'll have my work cut out for me. If you hear of any 3 State killing sprees it could be me going through "cold-turkey".
     Thanks,
       Doug

Better to have your work cut out for you than pieces of your throat and face!  Best wishes to you as you quit.

Reward yourself with a sampling of a few higher-rated providers here.  I have never even once seen the merest suggestion that hobbying causes cancer!

(No poop about cervical cancer, please, it's just a wisecrack).

Tried pipes a while (15 years ago) for about a week and found that my sense of taste was greatly diminished.

Was interested in chew until I found out that there is crushed glass in most of it in order to help it anchor itself to your gum and cheek.

Never started cigarettes.  I actually started burning cigars when I was about 12 but never really smoked them. I would have my dad buy them when we would go hunting so I could light them and stick them in my hatband because the smoke kept the bugs off us.  

They smelled nasty, so I went with him the next time as asked the guy who was selling them if there were any that didn't smell as bad, there were, but they were more expensive. Dad wouldn't kick for the extra cost so I had to dip into my lawn cutting funds to buy the better ones. The biggest problem was that they didn't keep burning like the Tiparillos so I had to give them a pull every so often to keep them lit.

After a few years I just kept asking for better tasting cigars, and that's how I started appreciating Cigars, and finally moved on to Cubans.  I still smoke them when I hunt.

HPG

You are addicted to a drug.

It can and does cause cancer.  If only negative feedback worked I'd post pix of some of patients with parts of their face, jaws, teeth, larynx, and even eyes missing because of this!  But it wont help I'm afaid, not to mention the confidientiality issue.

It stinks.  Your clothes smell, your breath smells and you might as well ask your escorts if they mind licking the bowl of your pipe as ask them to DFK.

You make it sound glamorous.  Sophisticated, worldly.  When in fact it's passe and vile.

Wouldn't your life be just fine without it? I'm sure there are people in your life who would like to not see you get cancer and who worry that you might.

Do yourself and those who love you a favor and quit.

Reoes anybody else here smoke a pipe?

Mark Twain said "A pipe gives a wise man pause to think, and a fool something to shove in his mouth!"  Have smoked a pipe for over 25 years, and find it a pleasant and inexpensive habit. I blend my own mixture, and smoke about three pipe fulls per day. I have been regularly checked and have no adverse problems.  I also find that people generally are not as obnoxious to pipe smokers as they are to cigar and cigarette smokers.  The only draw back is when some lovely lady says," Oh, I love the smell of a pipe, it reminds me of my Grandfather."

As a point of fact, the cancer part of this is really relative to exposure in an epidemiological/statistical sense.  The more you take into your system, the more you concentrate the smoke on an area, the more you hold the tobacco in contact with your gums, etc., the more likely you will be to contract the disease.

Sure there are those who will live to be 100 and smoke or dip their whole life, and there are those who will die of lung cancer and never have smoked more than the one time out behind the barn.  But for the most part it's dose related.

So your occasional Cuban is really relatively harmless, I suspect.

Still don't like the smell, however.   But that's me.

The aroma of a fine hand rolled cigar, a glass of port or other libation, a baroque oak paneled smoking room that is well ventilated, plush leather wing back chairs..... vile and passe, hardly.

The relaxation one enjoys while casually puffing away on the "occasional" fine smoke, may have health benefits of it's own. MfSD.

Reoes anybody else here smoke a pipe?

I'm a pipe smoker, but I limit my use of it pretty closely, more and more.

To be honest, lighting up is almost as good as sex. With some good scotch, neat, maybe better.

puff on, dude.
MT

if you catch my drift.